As almost always in big business, those in control will make sure that their personal interests are met, even at the expense of the company as a whole. It is more important that the board makes sure they all get several million payout should the company fall apart.
I was part of a pilot program using tablet pc's in the classroom back in 2002 or so. Really I have to say that it was a great experience, especially once you were using the right software. For any type of class involving mathematical formulas, diagrams, etc., it was a very useful tool. I could simply draw the image or formula into my notes on the tablet just as if I was using a notebook, with the added benefit of the organizational abilities you have when dealing with a digital document (searching, etc.,) when going back to study for exams or use in projects.
Hey guess what, it is cheaper to produce and distribute an electronic file than it is to cut down trees, chip trees up into pulp, soak pulp in chemicals, dry pulp into thin sheets, run thin sheets through monster machine that presses ink onto sheets, pile sheets in specific order on top of each other, cut sheets to uniform size, bind sheets together with glue with a thicker cover sheet/cardboard/particle board, put bound copy in contain with other bound copies, ship around world to store...
Those IT guys made the business case that slashdot keeps them informed of events/announcements in the computer and IT world, which is part of the job of IT guys (to keep current on news/events/products).
I actually agree in principal with this. The sliding scale seems very reasonable. That said, there still needs to be a time-limit as in the case of almost all books, very few will ever make $1million let alone $10M, but a select few will. I would also think that copyright needs to get properly applied when it is used as well. In the case of a book, or song lyrics, or just about every other case of "written works", except computer software, the author owns the work (which is why they get a royalty). I believe software writers should have the same benefits, especially in the face of much evidence that the work conditions in many places would be called "forced labor" in any other profession.
Until people actually STOP using the phones while driving, you won't see a decrease in crashes. The laws need to have a much bigger stick to enforce them. Many of these are just like seatbelt laws, cops can't pull people over directly for the infraction and need another reason for stopping the person first. Then they can issue a bonus ticket because the person wasn't wearing a seatbelt or using the cell phone. The tickets need to hurt a lot more as well. Like say a $500 fine or 20 hours community service (I like the "or" in that since this will hit teenagers a lot, and they would really be just fining the parents with that $500. This way, the person who gets it can opt for the community service if they can't afford the fine, and the community as a whole benefits).
Unfortunately, due to the economics of the USA, China could simply stop loaning the US Government money and everything would come to a grinding halt pretty fast (or worse, they could call in their loan and demand the money already owned them). As a result, you won't see much more than some political chest beating, a few pointing of fingers, and at most a slap on the writ saying "Bad China", and that will be it.
Actually at HD, that is more like 10 without using H.264 compression. Personally, I have been monitoring my net usage over the last year or so ever since Comcast started to talk about the 250 a month. And don't forget that the 250GB is COMBINED download AND upload. For anyone who does online gaming or has even 2 or 3 legal torrents, 250GB is used in a week or two. That is also why I don't think Comcast has enforced any of this in areas which there are alternative high speed service like FIOS. They don't want to risk losing even a heavy using customer to FIOS especially if they are also a cable TV subscriber. So I keep on doing my normal thing. Some months I am in the 150GB combined, others I have seen in the 350's, with a high of 592GB combined one month (had left the torrents with 200KB upload).
Ummm, do you even know what you are talking about? All I have seen in your post is a rant by someone who doesn't want to live near a nuclear plant, when in fact the plant was there before you may have even been born and you are pissed that they have they temerity to want to extend the operation of a plant that will continue to produce some of the cleanest base-load power that humans currently know how to generate.
Please note, almost ALL other low and non-pollution energy generation does not generate base-load power, the only other ones that do that are hydro, and thermal, which are both entirely dependent on location, and thus, can not be always utilized. Wind and solar are at the mercy of the weather and/or day/night. They can not currently be used as the basis of a power grid because they can not be relied upon to constantly generate a minimum amount of energy needed to keep the grid from failing due to brown-outs. This leaves us with gas, coal, and nuclear for base-load power generation. Both gas and coal produce tons of pollution and greenhouse gasses each year of operation, whereas nuclear produces only a few hundred pounds, and of that, much can be reused for other purposes if the time was taken to recycle (and some of it already is, such as tritium). Other newer reactor designs could also be used to do things such as produce certain radio-active isotopes as well as generate power. In fact, there are very few sources for many different types of radio-active isotopes used in many medical applications (there is a reactor in Canada which is the sole source in the WORLD for many of these things).
So feel free to rant about a perfectly fine nuclear plant that you want shutdown only to have smog and acid rain producing coal or gas plant put in its place (or two or three even). You still need to have something that will generate base-load power to take it's place. While it might be nice to see a new nuclear plant built instead of coal or gas, that will take 10-20 years given the lack of engineering firms in the USA who have experience with designing or building a plant, as well as approval process time to get the site and design certified and validated, let alone all the other people who will play the not in my backyard card, because it takes more than a grade school level education in math, physics, and engineering in order to understand how a nuclear plant works, how the design is safe and realize you are exposed to more radiation flying a plane then you would have been had you lived right next to the worst radiation leak in US history (Three Mile Island).
Which is why if you listen to the advertisements, it is always "up to" X speed, never stating a minimum, just a maximum, or if they show a number on the screen, there will always be some real tiny print at the bottom which basically says the likes of "advertised speeds are not indicative of actual speeds in your area, just a potential theoretical speed that can be reached in ideal circumstances".
Probably... The first movie was sometime around 1998 or so, and they didn't come out with the movie until after it was a popular TV show. Even if we say that the target market was 8-10 year olds, you are looking at those people being 20-22 now just for the movie timeframe, which means others are probably around 24-25 now and most definitely working.
Most of the sites you are mentioning that were not blocked were unblocked for work related uses. In IT, a good 80-90% of the job is keeping up with the technology that is out there and the uses others may have found for it. The sites you mentioned have a lot of related information about new technology and how others are trying to use it, so, for IT, that is directly relevant to their job and they have made the business case to management to unblock those sites.
Now that MS is at the receiving end of the stick on one of their BIGGEST money making products, I wonder if we might see their tune change on support for software patents...
Actually, if they changed it while you are under contract, you can terminate your existing contract with no questions asked (there is a time limit from when you are notified of the contract change). Anytime they change the services or add fees this consumer protection goes into effect. Your state may offer even more protection as well....
I still don't really get that one--how a 2000 year-old text can be coyrighted.
The 2000 year old one isn't copyrighted. Unfortunately, those were also written in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic and the majority of the world population can not read or translate those languages (especially when you also have to add in the fact that they are "ancient" variants, much like the difference between "olde English" and modern...). The various translated versions are copyrighted based on their translation and arrangement dates. Periodically, they get slightly different translations, especially when sections could be interpreted different ways, and thus a new copyright date is born. Many modern versions will also put specific "mistakes" in them so that if someone copies it, they can show that they based it on that particular work and have evidence that they breached the copyright. Got to love it...
How does this pass those statues? I can see if someone is using the current Pope's coat of arms or his particular name, in association with their service/company/announcement etc., but simply using a past Pope's coat of arms (especially one that has long been out of active use) can be restricted. Especially for ones which were developed and first used before trademark and copyrights even were written into law. Those are all in the public domain and free to use.
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I can see the headlines now. People being electrocuted when involved in an accident which causes a "short" over the car frame...
As almost always in big business, those in control will make sure that their personal interests are met, even at the expense of the company as a whole. It is more important that the board makes sure they all get several million payout should the company fall apart.
I was part of a pilot program using tablet pc's in the classroom back in 2002 or so. Really I have to say that it was a great experience, especially once you were using the right software. For any type of class involving mathematical formulas, diagrams, etc., it was a very useful tool. I could simply draw the image or formula into my notes on the tablet just as if I was using a notebook, with the added benefit of the organizational abilities you have when dealing with a digital document (searching, etc.,) when going back to study for exams or use in projects.
No because that number doesn't sound as big...
Well we already have a video game franchise on this called Assassin's Creed. Oops, did I just put a spoiler...
Hey guess what, it is cheaper to produce and distribute an electronic file than it is to cut down trees, chip trees up into pulp, soak pulp in chemicals, dry pulp into thin sheets, run thin sheets through monster machine that presses ink onto sheets, pile sheets in specific order on top of each other, cut sheets to uniform size, bind sheets together with glue with a thicker cover sheet/cardboard/particle board, put bound copy in contain with other bound copies, ship around world to store...
*ding* *ding* *ding* We have a winner!
Those IT guys made the business case that slashdot keeps them informed of events/announcements in the computer and IT world, which is part of the job of IT guys (to keep current on news/events/products).
I actually agree in principal with this. The sliding scale seems very reasonable. That said, there still needs to be a time-limit as in the case of almost all books, very few will ever make $1million let alone $10M, but a select few will. I would also think that copyright needs to get properly applied when it is used as well. In the case of a book, or song lyrics, or just about every other case of "written works", except computer software, the author owns the work (which is why they get a royalty). I believe software writers should have the same benefits, especially in the face of much evidence that the work conditions in many places would be called "forced labor" in any other profession.
Until people actually STOP using the phones while driving, you won't see a decrease in crashes. The laws need to have a much bigger stick to enforce them. Many of these are just like seatbelt laws, cops can't pull people over directly for the infraction and need another reason for stopping the person first. Then they can issue a bonus ticket because the person wasn't wearing a seatbelt or using the cell phone. The tickets need to hurt a lot more as well. Like say a $500 fine or 20 hours community service (I like the "or" in that since this will hit teenagers a lot, and they would really be just fining the parents with that $500. This way, the person who gets it can opt for the community service if they can't afford the fine, and the community as a whole benefits).
... no text needed, if you can't figure it out then go have a drink...
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How do you know the poster isn't from Big Sur Wireless :D
Or if your laptop happens to be considered a bomb and needs to have 3 bullets placed in it like in Israel... http://matzav.com/us-student-police-shot-my-laptop-upon-entry-to-israel
Unfortunately, due to the economics of the USA, China could simply stop loaning the US Government money and everything would come to a grinding halt pretty fast (or worse, they could call in their loan and demand the money already owned them). As a result, you won't see much more than some political chest beating, a few pointing of fingers, and at most a slap on the writ saying "Bad China", and that will be it.
Actually at HD, that is more like 10 without using H.264 compression. Personally, I have been monitoring my net usage over the last year or so ever since Comcast started to talk about the 250 a month. And don't forget that the 250GB is COMBINED download AND upload. For anyone who does online gaming or has even 2 or 3 legal torrents, 250GB is used in a week or two. That is also why I don't think Comcast has enforced any of this in areas which there are alternative high speed service like FIOS. They don't want to risk losing even a heavy using customer to FIOS especially if they are also a cable TV subscriber. So I keep on doing my normal thing. Some months I am in the 150GB combined, others I have seen in the 350's, with a high of 592GB combined one month (had left the torrents with 200KB upload).
Ummm, do you even know what you are talking about? All I have seen in your post is a rant by someone who doesn't want to live near a nuclear plant, when in fact the plant was there before you may have even been born and you are pissed that they have they temerity to want to extend the operation of a plant that will continue to produce some of the cleanest base-load power that humans currently know how to generate.
Please note, almost ALL other low and non-pollution energy generation does not generate base-load power, the only other ones that do that are hydro, and thermal, which are both entirely dependent on location, and thus, can not be always utilized. Wind and solar are at the mercy of the weather and/or day/night. They can not currently be used as the basis of a power grid because they can not be relied upon to constantly generate a minimum amount of energy needed to keep the grid from failing due to brown-outs. This leaves us with gas, coal, and nuclear for base-load power generation. Both gas and coal produce tons of pollution and greenhouse gasses each year of operation, whereas nuclear produces only a few hundred pounds, and of that, much can be reused for other purposes if the time was taken to recycle (and some of it already is, such as tritium). Other newer reactor designs could also be used to do things such as produce certain radio-active isotopes as well as generate power. In fact, there are very few sources for many different types of radio-active isotopes used in many medical applications (there is a reactor in Canada which is the sole source in the WORLD for many of these things).
So feel free to rant about a perfectly fine nuclear plant that you want shutdown only to have smog and acid rain producing coal or gas plant put in its place (or two or three even). You still need to have something that will generate base-load power to take it's place. While it might be nice to see a new nuclear plant built instead of coal or gas, that will take 10-20 years given the lack of engineering firms in the USA who have experience with designing or building a plant, as well as approval process time to get the site and design certified and validated, let alone all the other people who will play the not in my backyard card, because it takes more than a grade school level education in math, physics, and engineering in order to understand how a nuclear plant works, how the design is safe and realize you are exposed to more radiation flying a plane then you would have been had you lived right next to the worst radiation leak in US history (Three Mile Island).
Which is why if you listen to the advertisements, it is always "up to" X speed, never stating a minimum, just a maximum, or if they show a number on the screen, there will always be some real tiny print at the bottom which basically says the likes of "advertised speeds are not indicative of actual speeds in your area, just a potential theoretical speed that can be reached in ideal circumstances".
Probably... The first movie was sometime around 1998 or so, and they didn't come out with the movie until after it was a popular TV show. Even if we say that the target market was 8-10 year olds, you are looking at those people being 20-22 now just for the movie timeframe, which means others are probably around 24-25 now and most definitely working.
Most of the sites you are mentioning that were not blocked were unblocked for work related uses. In IT, a good 80-90% of the job is keeping up with the technology that is out there and the uses others may have found for it. The sites you mentioned have a lot of related information about new technology and how others are trying to use it, so, for IT, that is directly relevant to their job and they have made the business case to management to unblock those sites.
So truth as a defense doesn't count?
Now that MS is at the receiving end of the stick on one of their BIGGEST money making products, I wonder if we might see their tune change on support for software patents...
Actually, if they changed it while you are under contract, you can terminate your existing contract with no questions asked (there is a time limit from when you are notified of the contract change). Anytime they change the services or add fees this consumer protection goes into effect. Your state may offer even more protection as well....
I still don't really get that one--how a 2000 year-old text can be coyrighted.
The 2000 year old one isn't copyrighted. Unfortunately, those were also written in Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic and the majority of the world population can not read or translate those languages (especially when you also have to add in the fact that they are "ancient" variants, much like the difference between "olde English" and modern...). The various translated versions are copyrighted based on their translation and arrangement dates. Periodically, they get slightly different translations, especially when sections could be interpreted different ways, and thus a new copyright date is born. Many modern versions will also put specific "mistakes" in them so that if someone copies it, they can show that they based it on that particular work and have evidence that they breached the copyright. Got to love it...
How does this pass those statues? I can see if someone is using the current Pope's coat of arms or his particular name, in association with their service/company/announcement etc., but simply using a past Pope's coat of arms (especially one that has long been out of active use) can be restricted. Especially for ones which were developed and first used before trademark and copyrights even were written into law. Those are all in the public domain and free to use.